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Abbie Hoffman — Part 13
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3. General Activities
The NY "Sunday News", a NYC weekly newspaper, in
its July 26, 1970 issue on Page 72, contained an article
entitled, "Ya ppies Raise Garden Stink", which stated as
follows:. - .
. “About 15 Yippies who don't like the rock group
Blocd, Sweat and Tears because it made a State Department-
sponsored tour of Europe, picketed Madison Square Garden last
night to dissuade rock fans from attending the rocksters'
concert. .
"Circling in front of the Garden at 8 p.m., the
Yippies, led by Chicago Seven defendant Abbie Hoffman, passed
out handbills, shouted obscenities and, as Hoffman put it,
had ‘a Saturday night binge’,
"One elderly woman, looking bewildered, stumbled
into a pile of manure brought to the Garden by the Yippies
to express their feelings over the Blood, Sweat and Tears
'sellout'. ID
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